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USC Athletics views the SCORE Initiative as its societal duty. In conjunction with USC Civic & Community Relations, our collective mission is to promote the importance of higher education, healthy living, successful decision-making and the advancement of the communities that our universities reside in. SCORE is a tool that allows student athletes to be intentional with their time spent with youth from their community. The curriculum is deliberately general to allow student athletes to incorporate their personal experiences that they have learned from being a team player and student athlete. SCORE is a means to unify student athletes from around the nation to promote K-8 student achievement in school, life and health. The program works to leverage the platform student athletes have as role models within their community to encourage youth to make a personal commitment to anti-violence and successful decision-making and set their sites on college. Our "4 SCORE Quarters" are as follows:

Currently we have taken SCORE to over 8,000 students in Los Angeles County and have seen great results. We believe that this is just the beginning of using student athletes within their communities as figureheads to empower youth to set their goals on achieving higher education.

SCORE Game Plan:
After speaking to students, we encourage their involvement by creating their own game plan. Just as all student athletes have a game plan for any given competition, we encourage students to create their own game plan that incorporates all 4 SCORE Quarters. In addition, their game plan provides them with a tangible plan of how they are going to get to college.